Dear Gopala
Why do you walk into a trap and get downtrodden? I know you are an
aviveki but not a fool out of anger and no Know-how, feigning intelligent.
These words I have to use because of your cheek in tongue words repeatedly
written without silence. Rajaram never writes anything without staunch
authority; and without my knowledge and analysis, nothing is printed as you
do copy and paste ARATH SUBJECTS. Those written were from NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHY WHO CANNOT BE A FOOL LIKE YOU. PARROTS ARE TOO MANY AND AS BIG AS
A BIG CAT TOO. READ MORE; READ CLEAR; READ WELL; AND THEN TREAT AS YOU LIKE
IT; BUT NEVER BECOME NOSE DUSTED ALL THE TIME. Thank you Gopala K
Rajaram IRS 31525
ARTICLE CONTD:
Many parrots are omnivores. They eat mostly plants—fruit, seeds, nuts—but will
also consume insects and even meat. The South Pacific’s rainbow-colored
lories and lorikeets, for example, feed almost exclusively on nectar, using
tongues shaped like paintbrushes. Even these birds, though, have been seen
eating meat at feeding stations in Australia. In New Zealand, native kea
birds were first observed attacking, killing and eating sheep in 1868. The
mountain parrots were persecuted as sheep-killers until 1986, when the
species was granted protected status. (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHY)
4. Not all parrots are tropical.
Of the roughly 350 known species of parrots, most live in the tropical and
subtropical regions of Australia, Asia, Africa and the Americas. But some
parrots fly off the beaten path. The keas, for example, live in alpine
regions of New Zealand and nest in ground burrows, while the endangered
maroon-fronted parrot dwells at 6,000 feet in Mexico’s Sierra Madre
Oriental.
Parrots come in an incredible range of shapes and sizes. The smallest
psittacine species, the buff-faced pygmy, is nearly as small as a
hummingbird. At about three inches long, it’s the average length of an
adult human’s finger. The world’s longest parrot is the brilliant hyacinth
macaw, which measures about 3 feet, 4 inches long from tip to tail. But New
Zealand’s flightless, nocturnal kakapo wins the weight competition: A fully
grown male tops out at nearly nine pounds—the average weight of an adult
housecat.
Parrots have always been difficult to study in the wild: Many live in
remote, inaccessible areas, like jungles filled with thick vegetation.
Researchers have attempted to study parrots’ habits by attaching GPS
trackers to them, but the birds can skillfully remove such unwanted
accessories from their bodies. A 2015 study published in the Auk, though,
was a breakthrough in tracking methods for elusive psittacines. By encasing
GPS trackers in bite-proof plastic, researchers were able to track a group
of keas in New Zealand without any obvious negative effects on the
birds. {Smithsonian
magazine)
Some parrot species prey on animals, especially invertebrate larvae.
Golden-winged parakeets prey on water snails, the New Zealand kea can, though
uncommonly, hunt adult sheep, and the Antipodes parakeet, another New
Zealand parrot, enters the burrows of nesting grey-backed storm petrels and
kills the incubating adults. Some cockatoos and the New Zealand kākā
excavate branches and wood to feed on grubs; the bulk of the yellow-tailed
black cockatoo's diet is made up of insects. Some extinct parrots had
carnivorous diets. Pseudasturids were probably cuckoo- or puffbird-like
insectivores, while messelasturids were raptor-like carnivores.
K RAJARAM IRS 31525
On Sat, 31 May 2025 at 11:04, gopala krishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Respected friends,
>
> In a posting today regarding aviveki he has stated "adamantacity, without
> proper reading, digesting and the analysis lead one toward being an AVIVEKI"
>
> In this posting he has stated parrots are WILD animals. Surely a forward
> without proper reading
>
> A google search gives the following result
>
> Yes, birds are classified as animals. They belong to the Kingdom Animalia,
> a broad group that includes all living organisms that are not plants or
> fungi. Birds are specifically part of the Class Aves within the Animal
> Kingdom.
>
> Birds are only animals, not WILD ANIMALS. There is difference between
> animals and wild animals. So Mr. Rajaram proves himself an AVIVEKI.
> BEFORE commenting on others let him think about himself.
>
> Gopalakrishnan
>
>
> On Saturday 31 May, 2025 at 09:31:44 am IST, Rajaram Krishnamurthy <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> 7 facts about parrots
>
> 1. There are more than 350 parrot species. These include parakeets,
> macaws, cockatiels, and cockatoos.
> 2. The smallest parrot is the buff-faced pygmy parrot. It weighs
> around 10-15 grams and is around 8.5 centimetres long. The largest parrot
> is the hyacinth macaw, which measures 90-100 centimetres.
> 3. Parrots are long-lived. Kakapos can live for up to 95 years,
> scarlet macaws live for 40-50 years, and African grey parrots can live up
> to 50 years in the wild.
> 4. Parrots are sentient beings who communicate with one another
> through their tail feathers and voices. Some blush to show their emotions,
> and they can also mimic other animals, including humans.
> 5. Parrots are very clever. Researchers have shown that African greys
> have the cognitive skills of a five-year-old child.
> 6. African grey parrots fly several miles every day
>
> <https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/our-campaigns/past-campaigns/exotic-pets/>
> in
> the wild. When kept as pets, these beautiful creatures are often cruelly
> confined in small, caged spaces.
> 7. Parrots kept as pets often behave abnormally. They may pluck out
> their own feathers due to stress, boredom, and a lack of socialisation with
> other parrots.
>
> Parrots are wild animals, not pets
>
> Many parrot species — including the grey parrot, the Amazon parrot, and
> the red-fronted macaw — are now endangered. In the wild, their habitats are
> increasingly threatened by deforestation, much of it driven by the
> expansion of large-scale agriculture and factory farming. As forests are
> cleared for animal feed crops and grazing land, parrots lose their homes
> and food sources. This sometimes forces them to forage in farmers’ fields,
> where they are often persecuted as pests.
>
> One of the greatest threats to parrots is the exotic pet trade
> <https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/blogs/why-it-cruel-keep-wild-animals-pets/>.
> They are poached because of their beautiful appearance and, in the case of
> some species, like the African grey parrot, their ability to mimic human
> speech.
>
> Once taken from the wild, pet parrots are kept in cruel conditions. Their
> flight feathers are often chopped off to stop them from escaping. Many
> birds don’t survive captivity, or even the journey. 66% of African grey
> parrots
> <https://www.worldanimalprotection.org/latest/blogs/why-it-cruel-keep-wild-animals-pets/>
> die
> in transit.
>
> K Rajaram IRS 31525
>
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